Win 98 - trash bin - wrong icon

[minnehaha]

I know I have fixed this before but that was many years ago and I must not be typing the right terms in google.

My recycle bin says it is empty but shows the "not empty icon"

[Guest110]

Have you tried running disk clean up
http://www.helpwithwindows.com/windows98/start-141.html

[Guest110]

If you are running Windows 98, you may open the command prompt and change directory to "C:\" and then delete the "recycled" folder in C: by entering deltree command. After you delete the directory, you should create a new one by "md" command.

Again the commands that you should enter in command promt are:

>> cd C:\
>> deltree recycled
>> md recycled

[Dan18960]

Minnie,

Under display properties there is an option to display the basic operating icons in different formats.

Select the empty recycle bin and apply the properties and it should give you the correct empty desktop icon.

No need to delete the recycler (and I don't think you can anyway because W98 sees that as an operating system directory / folder).